At 5:32 PM +0000 1/24/03, Dave Mitchell wrote:
Linux is not the universe, though. And what it'll do depends on the version. We have to worry about Windows and a half-zillion other flavors of Unix, at the very least. IIRC, some versions of BSD weren't too thrilled about a lot of mmaps.On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:23:04AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:How many mmap's can $arch have for one program and for all? Could we hit some limits here, if every module loaded gets (and stays) mmap()ed.I just wrote a quick C program that successfully mmap-ed in all 1639 files in my Linux box's /usr/share/man/man1 directory.
No, we use dlopen, which isn't the same thing at all. It can be, but doesn't have to me.Note that in Perl5 we already (indirectly) rely on the OS's ability to mmap in the library code for any XS-based modules.
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